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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

    Nejat Akalan MD, PhD

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Luke Macyszyn MD, MA

  3. Department of Neurosurgery, Tufts Medical Center and Floating Hospital for Children, Boston, MA, USA

    Steven Hwang MD

  4. Department of Neurosurgery, Shriners Hospitals for Children-Philadelphia, 3551 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19140, USA

    Amer F. Samdani MD

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Akalan, N., Macyszyn, L., Hwang, S., Samdani, A.F. (2016). Intraspinal Pathology. In: Akbarnia, B., Yazici, M., Thompson, G. (eds) The Growing Spine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48284-1_15

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